Following our reports this week about three different ground zero rescue
workers who all testified that they were told Building 7 was to be brought
down, yet more revealing testimony has come to light - this time from
a former NYPD officer and first responder, who states that he clearly
heard bombs tear down Building 7 as he ran away from its collapse.

NYPD officer Craig Bartmer awoke on 9/11 to images of the World Trade
Center burning. Knowing colleagues who worked inside the towers, he
immediately headed for ground zero to help with the rescue efforts.
He is now suffering from respiratory illnesses as a result of the toxic
dust inhaled at the site. Bartmer was in the immediate vicinity of Building
7 before its collapse at approximately 5:20pm.

It is worthwhile to watch the entire 27 minute video interview below
(conducted by Dylan Avery of Loose
Change) but in the context of this article, Bartmer's comments on
the subject of Building 7 alone are transcribed after the jump.

BARTMER: "I was real close to Building 7 when it fell down...
That didn't sound like just a building falling down to me while I was
running away from it. There's a lot of eyewitness testimony down there
of hearing explosions. I didn't see any reason for that building to
fall down the way it did -- and a lot of guys should be saying the same
thing. I don't know what the fear is coming out and talking about it?
I don't know -- but it's the truth."

[...]

BARTMER: "I walked around it (Building 7). I saw a hole. I didn't
see a hole bad enough to knock a building down, though. Yeah there was
definitely fire in the building, but I didn't hear any... I didn't hear
any creaking, or... I didn't hear any indication that it was going to
come down. And all of a sudden the radios exploded and everyone started
screaming 'get away, get away, get away from it!'... It was at that
moment... I looked up, and it was nothing I would ever imagine seeing
in my life. The thing started pealing in on itself... Somebody grabbed
my shoulder and I started running, and the shit's hitting the ground
behind me, and the whole time you're hearing "boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom." I think I know an explosion when I hear it... Yeah
it had some damage to it, but nothing like what they're saying... Nothing
to account for what we saw... I am shocked at the story we've heard
about it to be quite honest."

Later in the film, Bartmer highlights the possibility that the attack
was run from Building 7, as former German technology minister Andreas
von Buelow has also postulated, and that it was then demolished
to destroy the evidence.

BARTMER: "If the means and the motive are they where would they
pull it off from? The Office of Emergency Management was in Building
7. That was a hardened bunker built to withstand just about anything
that New York would face. That building had a lot of important shit
in it and there was enough stuff in that building to bury evidence on
other fronts - financial records, government records. There's no way
that that just fell down on its own, I don't believe it."

Elsewhere in the interview Bartmer states his incredulity at how fast
the Building 7 site was cleaned up compared to the rest of ground zero.
He dismisses the 9/11 commission report as a farce and demands a new
real investigation.

The fact that the authorities were deceptive in the very hours and
days after the event itself has led many who were there to question
every other facet of the official story.

It is important to stress that everywhere we turn there are statements
from firemen, NYPD officials, EMT's and others who were involved in
the rescue efforts attesting to the fact that Building 7 was brought
down deliberately and that bombs were heard in all three buildings.
During the five year anniversary protests at ground zero, a plethora
of firemen and police echoed similar sentiments but few are prepared
to go on the record. However, the fact that they and many of their friends
are now dying in large numbers as a result of government deception is
encouraging more to come forward.